Emergency care: Treating life-threatening sepsis within the hour

Emergency care: Treating life-threatening sepsis within the hour:

In a draft quality standard, NICE says people showing signs of sepsis must be checked thoroughly and carefully. Once someone is classed as high-risk they should be seen by senior staff and given the correct treatment within an hour. Life-threatening sepsis is a condition that arises when the body’s response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.

Common signs and symptoms include:Fever;Increased heart rate;Increased breathing rate; andConfusion.

• St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, NH doesn't believe in Sepsis treatment. They let the patient die and never let on that the patient had SEPSIS!

With $90M deal, Durham company keeps life-saving medical test in its stockpile

Durham's bioMerieux buys California company for its kidney-injury test | The Herald Sun:

DURHAM 

A French biotech company, with a large Durham presence, has spent $90 million to buy a San Diego firm that makes diagnostic tests to help doctors diagnose life-threatening problems faster.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: US nurse charged with murder. Assisted suicide laws will not protect people from medical killers.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: US nurse charged with murder. Assisted suicide laws will not protect people from medical killers.:

The assisted suicide lobby argues that legalizing assisted suicide will prevent "underground" killing. They suggest that legalizing and regulating assisted suicide will protect people from illegal acts. 

Bull Shit it will!

Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?':

Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering "gene therapy" treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.

"Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" analysts ask in an April 10 report entitled "The Genome Revolution."

The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine — Killing for Profit

The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine — Killing for Profit:

The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is to formally study medical treatments and there have certainly been some successes.

Adults Medically Kidnapped: 3X More than Children in Foster Care – $50 BILLION in Assets Seized

Adults Medically Kidnapped: 3X More than Children in Foster Care – $50 BILLION in Assets Seized:

Most of the stories that we cover at Medical Kidnap involve children who were taken from their families by Child Protective Services. However, medical kidnapping can happen to adults too.We have covered a number of stories of adults being taken by Adult Protective Services and being placed under the legal guardianship of strangers.In January, we covered the stories of 2 medically kidnapped elderly women in the Boston area who were allegedly euthanized with the approval of their court-appointed guardians, against the wishes of their family members.

Epic alert exposes ‘silent killer’ SEPSIS

Epic alert exposes ‘silent killer’ - Cambridge Network:
Patients at risk of the ‘silent killer’ sepsis are being identified and treated quicker at Cambridge University Hospitals thanks to a new alert and action feature in its electronic patient record system.A new alert and set of actions within the Trust’s electronic patient record system, Epic,  part of the Trust’s award-winning eHospital digital transformation programme, identifies patients showing signs of sepsis – a life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.
National guidance recommends that patients with sepsis are given antibiotics within an hour of diagnosis to reduce the risk of serious complications or even death. Every year 250,000 people are affected by sepsis and it accounts for around 44,000 deaths, more than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined.

However, sepsis can be difficult to spot and is often mistaken in the early stages for other more localised infections. This electronic alert brings to the clinicians’ attention that sepsis could be a possibility if a patient’s clinical observations meet the relevant criteria.